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Description
Are you interested in advancing Amazon's Generative AI capabilities? The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a talented SDE to play a pivotal role in expanding information grounding for Large Language Models (LLMs). Come work with a talented team of engineers and scientists building state-of-the-art Generative AI, conversational agent technology.
Key job responsibilities
Develop and integrate key components needed to ground large language models (LLMs) powering conversational agents
Collaborate with team members on design approaches, tracer bullets, production implementation, and end-to-end validation
Work closely with Applied Scientists to ensure functioning dependencies via foundational model training and fine-tuning, in-context learning, and prompt engineering
A day in the life
As a SDE with the AGI team, you will be responsible for leading the development high performance, low latency, cutting edge component integrations to advance state of the art Conversational Assistant agents. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of conversational agent innovations. You will drive system architecture decisions, and contribute to best practices that enable a quality infrastructure.
About the team
Join our AGI team and work at the forefront of AI. Collaborate with top minds pushing boundaries in LLM training, information grounding, and more. Gain valuable experience and accelerate your career growth. This is a unique opportunity to create history and shape the future of artificial intelligence.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Boston, MA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or Rust
Excellent written and verbal communication
Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
Experience with high throughput cloud systems
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.